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Man

אָדָםStrong’s H0120

adam (a-dam)

Appears in 526 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Adam is the Hebrew word usually translated “humankind”, “person” and “anyone”. It appears in 526 verses of the Old Testament.

“And I heard a man’s voice between the banks of Ulai, which called, and said, Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision.”
Daniel 8:16 KJV
Meaning
  1. Man, mankindman, human being · man, mankind (much more frequently intended sense in OT) · Adam, first man · city in Jordan valley
How it's translated
  • humankind 273
  • a person 47
  • anyone 29
  • person 26
  • the man 21
  • human 17
  • a human 17
  • from humankind 12

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Ezekiel 130
  • Psalms 62
  • Proverbs 43
  • Ecclesiastes 43
  • Genesis 37
  • Jeremiah 29

33 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture
All 526 verses, by book
Joshua 2
11:1414:15
1 Chronicles 4
5:2117:1721:1329:1
Nehemiah 3
2:102:129:29
Lamentations 2
3:363:39
Joel 1
1:12
Amos 1
4:13
Jonah 3
3:73:84:11
Habakkuk 3
1:142:82:17
Zephaniah 2
1:31:17
Haggai 1
1:11
Malachi 1
3:8
Hebrew dictionary

אָדָם adam · man

1) man, mankind 1a) man, human being 1b) man, mankind (much more frequently intended sense in OT) 1c) Adam, first man 1d) city in Jordan valley

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “man” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

MAN, noun

plural men. [Heb.species, kind, image, similitude.]

  1. Mankind; the human race; the whole species of human beings; beings distinguished from all other animals by the powers of reason and speech, as well as by their shape and dignified aspect. 'Os homini sublime dedit.'“And God said, Let us make man in our image,, after our likeness, and let them have dominion--” Genesis 1:26“MAN that is born of a woman, is of few days and full of trouble” Job 14:1“My spirit shall not always strive with man” Genesis 6:3“I will destroy man whom I have created” Genesis 6:7“There hath no temptation taken you, but such as is common to man” 1 Corinthians 10:13“It is written, man shall not live by bread alone” Matthew 4:4
  2. A male individual of the human race, of adult growth or years.
  3. A male of the human race; used often in compound words, or in the nature of an adjective; as a man-child; men-cooks; men-servants.
  4. A servant, or an attendant of the male sex.
All definitions
  1. A word of familiar address.
  2. It sometimes bears the sense of a male adult of some uncommon qualifications; particularly, the sense of strength, vigor, bravery, virile powers, or magnanimity, as distinguished from the weakness, timidity or impotence of a boy, or from the narrow mindedness of low bred men.“Thou art but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth” 1 Samuel 17:33
  3. An individual of the human species.
  4. man is sometimes opposed to boy or child, and sometimes to beast.
  5. One who is master of his mental powers, or who conducts himself with his usual judgment.
  6. It is sometimes used indefinitely, without reference to a particular individual; any person; one.
  7. In popular usage, a husband.
  8. A movable piece at chess or draughts.
  9. In feudal law, a vassal, a liege subject or tenant.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.